This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations. Collaboration for innovation is a topic that has attracted widespread interest from academics, business strategists and government officials. To date the collaborations have focused on the performance management process and more specifically on how to encourage collaboration. However, businesses across the world are realizing that for cross-sector collaboration to be successful, it is necessary for firms to share knowledge and innovation through a process of learning. The book contributes to this by providing fresh insights into ways to stimulate cross-sector collaboration. It presents diverse methods and approaches to unify the dimensions of knowledge, learning and innovation and discusses how collaboration can be created, sustained, and expanded.

 Knowledge, Learning and Innovation: Research Insights into Cross-Sector Collaboration.- Entrepreneurial Competencies and Firm Performance in Emerging Economies: A Study of Women Entrepreneurs in Malaysia.- Can Online Co-Creation Influence Lead Users' and Opinion Leaders' Behaviors?.- Knowledge and Innovation in Portuguese Enterprises.- Social Ties and Human Capital in Family SME's Internationalization.- Perceived Social Support and Social Entrepreneurship: Gender Perspective from Turkey.- Entrepreneurship Challenges and Gender Issues in the African Informal Rural Economy.- The Construction of a Professional Identity of a Female Entrepreneur.- Knowledge Creation and Relationship Marketing in Family Businesses: A Case-Study Approach.- The Gender Question and Family Entrepreneurship Research.- A  Composite Index Approach to Detect Information Transparency: The Case of Female Leadership in Family Firms.- Influencing Factors in Customers' Intention to Re-visit Resort Hotels: The Roles of Customer Experience Management and Customer Value.